# Why is The Simpsons still on the air?

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**Created:** [May 17, 2014, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-simpsons-still-on-the-air/688631 "2014-05-17T09:47:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-simpsons-still-on-the-air/688631/61 "2014-05-19T19:31:35Z")

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> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#):
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> (and Julie Kavner is in her eighties)

Unless you’re posting from the future (when The Simpsons is in its forty-somethingth season) or you know something that [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Kavner) doesn’t, this is incorrect: she was born in 1950.

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